2019 Tour de France, stage 12: Toulouse>Bagnères-de-Bigorre

[Pricey_sky]

Yates you can! Perfectly played.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

Called it.

Benoot attacks for 4th. lol

 

[Pirazziattacks]

Wow I had Muhlbereger the unbackable favourite there but he let Yates turn it into a track sprint. Big mistake.

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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Called it.

Benoot attacks for 4th. lol

I called it first

 

[PremierAndrew]

Smartly done by Simon Yates

 

[TomLPC]

Good bit of race craft from yates

 

[JosephK]

Re: 2019 Tour de France, stage 12: Toulouse>Bagnères-de-Bigo

Sly Simon! Executed to perfection. Chapeau.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

I really thought Pello and Gregor were faster than S Yates

 

[HelloDolly]

Yates won in the way Dan Martin won in 2013

 

[tobydawq]

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I don't see how Mühlberger can throw this away. He manages to be the underdog and at the same time the fastest of the three.

Okay, tactical ineptitide will always help in a situation like this.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

GC zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Bolder]

All 8 Ineos riders on the front still?

 

[ppanther92]

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I really thought Pello and Gregor were faster than S Yates

Well maybe they are but Yates did perfect. After the turn there were less than 200 m to go and he had Mühlberger boxed in...

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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I really thought Pello and Gregor were faster than S Yates

Yates used to ride track

 

[Pricey_sky]

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I really thought Pello and Gregor were faster than S Yates

Possibly, but Yates was much smarter today. Make the final corner in front and there isn’t enough road for them to come back.

 

[Cance > TheRest]

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I really thought Pello and Gregor were faster than S Yates

Well maybe they are but Yates did perfect. After the turn there were less than 200 m to go and he had Mühlberger boxed in...

Gregor Perhaps. But Pello had plenty of meters to go past

 

[JosephK]

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All 8 Ineos riders on the front still?

Rest of GC has hoisted the white flag, and not just for today.

 

[sir fly]

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GC zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Time trial ahead.

 

[Lequack]

I heard someone say others need to attack Ineos in the mountains because they lost so much time. Well today showed there will be none of that happening. It's a race for 3rd place now.

 

[tobydawq]

Everybody knew nothing could happen in the GC battle today, yet people are whining that there are eight Ineos riders still in the peloton.

There won't be in the remaining mountainbstages, I'll tell you that.

 

[IndianCyclist]

today's GC losers - Uran, Bardet, Fuglsang,Porte,Landa without doing anything

 

[Broccolidwarf]

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I heard someone say others need to attack Ineos in the mountains because they lost so much time. Well today showed there will be none of that happening. It's a race for 3rd place now.

I disagree.

Today was a special stage, because the TT is tomorrow.

No GC contender will go deep today, because if they win 30 secs today, they can lose 2 minutes tomorrow.

The weekend is another matter, they will both be GC days.

 

[Lequack]

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Everybody knew nothing could happen in the GC battle today, yet people are whining that there are eight Ineos riders still in the peloton.

There won't be in the remaining mountainbstages, I'll tell you that.

They'll be even further behind after the TT.

 

[ppanther92]

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today's GC losers - Uran, Bardet, Fuglsang,Porte,Landa without doing anything

Was clear that there will be no GC action today

 

[tobydawq]

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Everybody knew nothing could happen in the GC battle today, yet people are whining that there are eight Ineos riders still in the peloton.

There won't be in the remaining mountainbstages, I'll tell you that.

They'll be even further behind after the TT.

And they would have been even further behind that level of being further behind if they had wasted anlot of energy today